Asraelite

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by Asraelite 3d ago
But it's meant to be returned in cases where the server is a teapot, more specifically when it's a teapot requested to brew coffee, not for cases where it's not a teapot.
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by Asraelite 4d ago
I don't get it. A kettle is not a teapot.
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by Asraelite 23d ago
Why are you unwilling to say the other country?
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by Asraelite 27d ago
The "How PMG Works" section on Github does not actually explain how it works
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by Asraelite 1mo ago
> Shouldn't entirely new life develop all the time on earth? The fact that it doesn't is a pretty simple solution to the Fermi Paradox.
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by Asraelite 1mo ago
I would say it's almost never appropriate unless you're directly quoting source texts. If you are talking about a historical event from Egypt in 500 BCE, you would say "this happened in 500 BCE", not "this happened
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by Asraelite 2mo ago
> At least in this article the author explicitly explains the notation at the very start They explain one particular aspect of the notation but never define the variables used. What is k? q? S? It's obvious if you've studied ma
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by Asraelite 2mo ago
No it's not. There is a legal distinction in IP law between the act of observing information and the act of using that information for some kind of personal gain.
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by Asraelite 2mo ago
> The vast majority of processors are optimized for floats now and some operations (e.g. division) are actually faster. This seems backwards. Hardware is optimized for floats because people use floats. If people used fixed point, hardwar
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by Asraelite 2mo ago
Permission to access is not the same as permission to use.
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by Asraelite 2mo ago
Backdoors are often (almost always?) designed to look like incompetence so that there's plausible deniability.
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by Asraelite 2mo ago
> Any time I try to use the site while logged out I immediately hit all sorts of rate limits and spam prevention measures. When this started happening to me I realized that I can't rely on Github as infrastructure anymore. I now ven
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by Asraelite 3mo ago
Discounted doesn't necessarily mean at a loss. It could just mean a smaller profit margin than normal.
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
It's active voice. Intransitive verbs cannot be put in the passive.
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
> "$1m in stocks" is a thing that is having appreciation done to it. How? "appreciate" in this sense is not a transitive verb. There cannot be an agent. In any case, I don't think you need to defend this. It&#x27
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
It's not "we should live in the same environment we evolved in to be happy", it's "the things that make us happy are a product of the environment we evolved in, and we should take that into consideration".
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
I hate that this discussion is about OpenAI vs. Anthropic and not OpenAI+Anthropic vs. Google. Google put up so little of a fight against the DoW for their use of Gemini that we didn't even hear about it. They are clearly the worst of
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
You are conflating obnoxiousness with directness.
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
> GPU-friendly? Scalable? Energy-efficient? Reliable? User-friendly? Maintainable? Nobody uses "performant" to refer to any of those. It usually means either high throughput, or some aggregate of high throughput + low latency +
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
> Widespread vulnerabilities discovered This is a good thing
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
> Copyright © 1997 the Nordstjernen project Did this project exist in some form since 1997? The Wayback Machine shows that the website was previously completely different - a fan site for someone connected to the Norwegian royal family.
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
> You can use your imagination to come up with many reasons these result in more chargebacks than normal purchases. No I can't. Can you elaborate?
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
Where is the source code?
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
Corruption does not necessarily mean a politician receiving a kickback. It can be a lot more indirect and subversive.
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
Something similar is the lost wallet test: https://reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ijboze/study_of_civic_h... source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau8712 https:&#
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by Asraelite 4mo ago
Secure boot doesn't provide security, just control for device manufacturers. Physical access always means the device is pwned. You can install a keylogger or something similar.
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by Asraelite 5mo ago
> for productive national conversation (and some digital services) at scale to happen online identities need to be verified That is the exact opposite of what you need. Loss of anonymity creates chilling effects that stifle conversation.
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by Asraelite 5mo ago
The wording was just an attempt to illustrate the point. There are cases where you can rephrase a sentence with "zero" to get basically the same meaning, but the important thing is that "zero" falls into the same semanti
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by Asraelite 5mo ago
Also not the same. You can't say "the number of apples is no", but you can with "zero".
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by Asraelite 5mo ago
"nothing" is not the same the same as "zero". "zero apples" means something different to "nothing", but that difference is subtle and difficult to explain, which is what makes the invention of zero su

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